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How Toxic Is Masculinity?

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An article in the New Yorker today by Zoe Heller describes the end of toxic masculinity, thanks in part to chnges at the tertiary level where feminism really took hold in the 80s and didn't let go. Heller's piece begins:

Ten years ago, Hanna Rosin's book, "The End of Men," argued that feminism had largely achieved its aims, and that it was time to start worrying about the coming obsolescence of men. American women were getting more undergraduate and graduate degrees than American men, and were better placed to flourish in a "feminized" job market that prized communication and flexibility. For the first time in American history, they were outnumbering men in the workplace. "The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards," Rosin wrote.

In this scene from Back to School a classroom of students engages in Critical Theory about Vietnam. Sam Kinson is the teacher. Watch how he works the undergrads. Instead of Kinison, think Billy Jean King coming at you and telling you what you need to know about the feminine mystique. More much needed critical theory. We need yelling at in the worst way.

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